Santarem
| dc.contributor.author | Smith, John Gordon | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Fisher, Son, & Co. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2/29/24 7:45 | |
| dc.date.available | 2/29/24 7:45 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1832 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A obra encontra-se dividida em 23 capítulos, tendo cada um uma síntese dos temas que vão ser desenvolvidos. É composta por transcrições fiéis de cenas presenciadas pelo autor, pondo, assim, a descoberto o carácter das gentes do interior de Portugal e o estado desolador da sociedade portuguesa desorganizada pela guerra. | |
| dc.description.author | OBSERVAÇÕES GERAIS DO AUTOR SOBRE A OBRA O autor alude ao carácter efémero dos livros de distracção em geral, nos quais inclui este livro que, segundo as suas aspirações, limitar-se-á a uma única edição. Salienta, porém, a pertinência da publicação deste livro enquanto instrumento instrutivo e diversificador da experiência literária dos leitores: "as so many do travel, [...] in countries whose economy differ greatly from our own, it must, in these days of fictitious tale and fictitious narrative, go for something, to be able to vary the ordinary business of a peruser's life, by an occasional clip into a page of downright matter of fact". Recusa ainda a ideia dos conceitos estereotipados, referindo-se à autenticidade das descrições, ainda que admita o carácter subjectivo da análise que lhes é subjacente. .................................... pp. 5-6 | |
| dc.description.author | DO AUTOR Para além de diversas contribuições para a "Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal", há a citar várias publicações: 1. "De Asthmati", Edinburgh, 1810. 2. "The Principles of Forensic Medicine", 8 vo. London , 1821; 2ª ed. 1824; 3ª ed. 1827. 3. "An Analysis of Medical Evidence", 8 vo., London, 1825. 4. "The Claims of Forensic Medicine", 8 vo., 1829. 5. "Hints for the Examination of Medical Witnesses", 12mo., 1829. 6. "Santarem: or, Sketches of Society and Manners in the Interior of Portugal", 1832. | |
| dc.description.informations | INTRODUÇÃO (pp. III-IV) As histórias assim como as descrições presentes ao longo do livro figuram como as transcrições fiéis de cenas presenciadas pelo autor, pondo, assim, a descoberto o carácter das gentes do interior de Portugal e o estado desolador da sociedade portuguesa desorganizada pela guerra. Contudo, este critério de fidelidade não inclui o nome próprio de certos compatriotas do autor bem como, por vezes, a exposição rigorosa dos seus caracteres. Verifica-se a inexistência de um plano organizador ou de um enredo que atraia o leitor. No entanto, o testemunho exacto dos costumes ou modos de viver possui, por si só, um valor que lhe é inerente e, como consequência, angariador de auditório. | |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | * Chapter I: A great mistake about books - Perishable and durable articles in general, and books in particular - Address to the reader - Hospital mate for general service - Quarters at Portsmouth - The John Smith transport - The Nancy - Exchange of money - Preparations for embarkation. * Chapter II: A voyage of discovery - An over-land journey - Arrival at Plymouth - Selling and buying - Arrival at Lisbon. * Chapter III: Staff and regimental officers compared - The guards at Spithead - Mr. Jonathan Courtney - The scarecrow and rattler - The scarecrow's boats - Ensign ***, alias Don Silentio - His journal - Some extracts therefrom. * Chapter IV: Short allowance - A breeze, and rail-road travelling right before the wind - Dead lights - A casuality - Land on the larboard bow! - Ceremonies of Pilotage - Terra Firma, though not incognita. * Chapter VI: Quarters in Lisbon - Ordered to join the army - Preparations for departure - Pedro and Bento - Arrival at Saca Vem. * Chapter VII: Reception at Saca Vem - Arrival of Bento, and loss of Pedro - Magnitude of Portuguese arithmetic - Magnificent tea, and the cause of its degeneracy - Dismissal of Pedro - Oranges. * Chapter VIII: High-sounding billet - Anticipated reception, not quite the true one - A municipality frightened - New billets obtained. * Chapter IX: Geographical calculations - Desolation and dilapidation - Banditti - Living in fearful style - A midnight storming-party - Dr. Thomson in bed - My gallant defence - Volunteers - Getting wet, without getting dry again - The showers of Portugal - Men of straw. * Chapter X: Considerations on climacterics - Santarem - D'Alornas storked-out - Professional reflections - Dutch tiles - Ups and downs - Done up - Laid down. * Chapter XI: Statistics - Evening parties - Reasons for not inviting the reader - Charley Thomson a great man - Salubrity of arsenic. * Chapter XII: The high serjeant of Santarem - National Costume - Lisbon hoax - A grand dinner before lent - Discourses on philosophical subjects. * Chapter XIII: Apologies for deficiency in zeal - Instructive conversation - Portuguese ascendancy - English language - Questions respecting England - Change of quarters - A celebrated preacher - Organs - A mass for the dead - One of the twelve tribes. * Chapter XIV: Passion week - A sermon on good friday - A supper party in a convent. * Chapter XV: Difficulty of speaking latin - Father Tom's behaviour - A Reverend gentleman in the black hole. * Chapter XVI: The medical department of the army - A dangerous acquaintance - Helping a man out of the gutter - Taking an aid-de-camp's shirt - The invalid Major. * Chapter XVII: Ague, the principal dish at a dinner-party - A shivering soliloquy - Specimen of a sick-certificate - Strange symptoms. * Chapter XVIII: Jokes alias hoax - Tea party in a nunnery - Clarities and dominicans put to the route - Gingerbread soldiers - A dissertation upon living without money - Levi's supplies - A few words upon wine - Chopping logic over camp kettles. * Chapter XIX: Housekeeping - Dr. Jaw - Sawny Jardine - Fowls - Effects of sobriety - Cutting eye teeth - How to kill your own mutton - A turtle feast - Olive oil for fuel - Domestic comforts - How to get a drove of cattle. * Chapter XX: Corpus Christi - A Santarem Nabob - A dissertation on children and shows - A barber-surgeon - Treatment of a fractured skull - Treatment of fever patients - A Portuguese magistrate - National politeness - Forged coin - Riches of the country - General observations. * Chapter XXI: Lord Wellington's return from Cadiz - Sir Thomas Picton - Preparations and anticipations - Triumph of Barachio - The praise of nuns - A grand review in sick chambers - Personal appearance of Lord Wellington. * Chapter XXII: Summer - The aloe - Saints and their Holy-days - Padlock and his perquisites - Bolton's anger - Dissertations upon noise and languages - Dining out, and giving dinners - A one-eyed monster, alias a gentleman farmer - Padlock's jealousy - Arrival of a new commissary and his train - Mr. Berreau. * Chapter XXIII: Lieutenant G's Hints - History of Mr. Berreau - Becoming reward to an hospital mate - A family dinner - Unseasonable gratitude - Speeches, replies, and rejoinders - Liberal and illiberal opinions. | |
| dc.format.extent | 329 | |
| dc.identifier | L. 11211 P. | |
| dc.identifier.other | 37 | |
| dc.identifier.other | A | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://purl.pt/17124 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://cetapsrepository.letras.up.pt/id/cetaps/113900 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.address | Newgate Street | |
| dc.publisher.city | Londres | |
| dc.publisher.country | Inglaterra | |
| dc.rights | metadata only access | |
| dc.source.place | B.N. | |
| dc.subject | Literatura de viagem | |
| dc.title | Santarem | |
| dc.title.subtitle | or, sketches of society and manners in the interior of Portugal. | |
| dc.type | book | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| person.familyName | Smith | |
| person.givenName | John Gordon | |
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